THE LAST FIGHT OF THE ' REVENGE' ad. 



1591. 



performed a very great fight, and stayed two houres as 

 neere the Revenge as the weather would permit him, 

 not forsaking the fight, till he was like to be encompassed 

 by the squadrons, & with great difficultie cleared him- 

 selfe. The rest gave divers voleis of shot, and entred 

 as farre as the place permitted, and their owne neces- 

 sities, to keepe the weather gage of the enemie, untill 

 they were parted by night. A fewe dayes after the fight 

 was ended, and the English prisoners dispersed into 

 the Spanish and Indie ships, there arose so great a 

 storme from the West and Northwest, that all the fleete 

 was dispersed, as well the Indian fleete which were then 

 come unto them, as the rest of the Armada that attended 

 their arrivall, of which 14. saile together with the Re- 

 venge, and in her 200 Spaniards, were cast away upon 

 the Isle of S. Michael. So it pleased them to honor 

 the buriall of that renowmed ship the Revenge, not 

 suffering her to perish alone, for the great honour she 

 atchieved in her life time. On the rest of the Ilandes 

 there were cast away in this storme, 15 or 16 more of 

 the ships of warre : and of an hundred and odde saile 

 of the Indie fleete, expected this yeere in Spaine, what 

 in this tempest, and what before in the bay of Mexico, 

 and about the Bermudas, there were 70 and odde con- 

 sumed and lost, with those taken by our shippes of 

 London, besides one very rich Indian ship, which set 

 her selfe on fire, beeing boorded by the Pilgrim, and 

 five other taken by master Wats his ships of London, 

 between the Havana and Cape S. Antonio. The fourth 

 of this moneth of November we received letters from 

 the Tercera, affirming that there are 3000 bodies of 

 men remaining in that Hand, saved out of the perished 

 ships : & that by the Spaniards owne confession, there 

 are 10000 cast away in this storme, besides those that 

 are perished betweene the Hands and the maine. Thus 

 it hath pleased God to fight for us, and to defend the 

 justice of our cause, against the ambicious and bloody 

 pretenses of the Spaniard, who seeking to devoure 

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